The Rocket Scientist Family

She’s a 16-year-old Congo African Gray parrot. She’s also the reason I can’t keep any books on my bottom shelves.

Spike the Reading Assistance Dog

Spike is a 6-year-old rat terrier who enjoys crawling under a blanket and reading with me in the Dog Chair. In between jumping five feet in the air for no reason and then chasing his tail for ten solid minutes.

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I love your blog! I’m a part-time freelance book reviewer, and I see on your “about” section that you say you leave out the description of the book and characters so that doesn’t make you a “real reviewer”. But trust me, when I write my reviews, I usually don’t put what’s inside the book either, just what I think about it. And that’s what a review is. People have the synopsis for a description! So you are doing a GREAT job and, since I’m new to wordpress, I’m excited to see what all your blog has to offer!

DISCLAIMER

I'm not really a reviewer or a critic. First, what I write can't really be called reviews, because I deliberately leave out any kind of description of a book's plot or characters - I like a blank slate when I start a book and I'm assuming you do too. Second, I almost never criticize anything about a book. I love reading and it's rare for me to bring home a book that doesn't wow me or at least please me, which is why I don't accept ARCs. So if you're looking for real detail or insightful criticism, you'll have to track down a blogger smarter than me!

What I’m Reading This Week

(In case you want to drop everything, read it, and have a discussion about it with me):
The Woman Who Lost Her Soul - Bob Shacochis
AUDIO: The Children's Book - A. S. Byatt